Senior AI Product Engineer Job Santa Clara area,California USA,Software Development

Senior AI Product Engineer

NVIDIA is seeking a dedicated Senior AI Product Engineer to join our ambitious AI for Media team in Santa Clara. As a core member of our AI division, you will lead innovation by turning advanced AI capabilities into real products. This role offers an outstanding chance to develop the future of AI while collaborating with highly skilled professionals. If you are passionate about advancing AI technology and have a proven history of delivering high-quality solutions, this role is ideal for you!

What you'll be doing:

Build reference pipeline implementations that leverage AI for Media NIMs and SDKs, with robust error handling, controls, and observability.

Create cookbooks and notebooks showcasing AI model capabilities across a range of use cases, and develop Python SDK bindings to improve functionality and accessibility.

Assess and report on the AI4

Media first-run experience, identify and resolve rough edges before customer impact, and use telemetry to understand developer engagement and refine strategies.

Conduct benchmarking through standardized tests and leader board tracking to maintain competitive positioning.

Support external developers by prioritizing Git Hub issues, answering technical questions in community channels, and informing the product roadmap.

Communicate AI software technical details to Product and help define product and software requirements documents (PRDs and SRDs).

Participate in key lighthouse-partner engagements to ensure successful software integration.

Lead engineering projects focused on benchmarking, data flywheels, and Git Hub improvements.

What we need to see:

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or similar field or equivalent experience
12+ years of hands-on experience in software development, with advanced knowledge of Python and the competence to construct front-end applications employing Type Script/JavaScript.
Over 3 years of background in authoring cookbooks, Jupyter notebooks, technical documentation, and making contributions to open-source initiatives.
Over 3 years in product management pertaining to the delivery of AI software as an on prem or cloud service.
Demonstrated experience in shipping LLM-backed features, including prompting, tool/function calling, structured outputs, retrieval, agent loops, and evaluation work.
Proficiency in coding software, visualization tools, project tracking tools, and frontend software such as Python, C++, Tableau, JIRA, JavaScript, and React.
Strong technical writing skills with the capability to simplify complex technical concepts into developer-friendly content.
Solid AI product insight and background in drafting SRDs or PRDs.
Solid grasp of the AI development lifecycle.
Self-directed with a proven ability to make data-driven decisions and showcase creative problem-solving skills.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

Public artifacts showcasing your contributions to open-source projects, notebooks, blog posts, or talks.
Experience in developer relations, developer experience, solutions engineering, or forward-deployed engineering.
Hands-on experience with fine-tuning, distillation, or serving/inference optimization.
Demonstrated experience speaking publicly at workshops, conferences, or live streams.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 200,000 USD - 322,000 USD.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until August 16, 2026.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.